test-drive bookings
Car dealership digital marketing that lifted test drives across showrooms
Showrooms bidding against each other for the same searches were the core flaw in this group's car dealership digital marketing. Location-level campaigns, model-specific landing pages and tracking every call and booking by showroom lifted test-drive bookings 58% and cut cost per booking 27%.
Illustrative example. Client details are anonymised and representative of the work we do.
- Industry
- Automotive
- Services
- Local SEO Services + more
- Platforms
- Google Ads
- Duration
- 5 months
Where they started
Each showroom competed with the others for the same searches, and enquiries were hard to trace to a location.
The approachWhat we changed
We set up location-level campaigns and profiles, built model-specific landing pages and tracked every call and booking by showroom.
What other businesses can take from this
Dealer groups often let each showroom run its own ads, or run one account that covers the whole city. Either way, showrooms end up competing in the same auctions and pushing up each other's costs. Enquiries land in a shared inbox or on a central number, so nobody can say which location or which campaign produced a test drive.
The lesson is to give each location its own campaigns and profile, with clear boundaries, and to send searchers for a specific model to a page about that model. Tracking calls and bookings by showroom then lets the group fund the locations and models that work. Every enquiry is now traced to a showroom, which ends the guesswork in budget meetings.
Multi-showroom groups and franchise networks benefit most, especially where locations share a brand but report separately.
What moved
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